The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature

Pinker, Steven

ISBN 10: 0670063274 / ISBN 13: 9780670063277

Editore: Viking, 2007

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2007. hardcover. Good clean copy with minor shelfwear. DJ has some minor nicks and tears, remains very good. . . . . Codice articolo KTS0037176

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Titolo: The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window ...

Casa editrice: Viking

Data di pubblicazione: 2007

Legatura: Rilegato

Condizione: Very Good

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Riassunto:

The Pulitzer Prize finalist author of The Blank Slate presents an accessible study of the relationship between language and human nature, explaining how everything from swearing and innuendo to prepositions and baby names reveal facts about key human concepts, emotions, and relationships.

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Steven Pinker is the Harvard College Professor of Psychology at Harvard University. A two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist and the winner of many awards for his research, teaching, and books, he has been named one ofTime's 100 Most Influential People in the World Today and Foreign Policy's 100 Global Thinkers.